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Re: setup: how to select all src packages too?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:26:12 +0400
- Subject: Re: setup: how to select all src packages too?
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- References: <5302FC86 dot 5020203 at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
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Greetings, Luke Kendall!
> It's great that Cygwin has so many packages. And setup.exe makes it
> easy to select the packages you want.
> But it seems quite difficult to also select all the corresponding source
> packages as well, simply because there are so many packages! In the
> worst case, where you want every package, and all the source packages
> too, surely you don't have to scroll and click 3,000-odd times in the UI
> to select them all? But I haven't found a way to do it through setup.
> Sorry if this is a dumb question. I have searched, but couldn't find an
> answer.
This is a known deficiency of a Cygwin setup.
However, how many source packages you ACTUALLY, REALLY need to download?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.02.2014, <13:24>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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